Brooklyn
Brooklyn ranks 11th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Vienna, Berlin, and Budapest. Memorable people born in Brooklyn include Abraham Maslow, Milton Friedman, and Jeffrey Epstein. Memorable people who died in Brooklyn include Karl Ferdinand Braun, Lola Montez, and Jonas Mekas. Brooklyn has been the birth place of many actors, and singers and the death place of many actors, and musicians. Brooklyn is located in United States.
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelve original counties established under British rule in 1683 in the then Province of New York. As of the 2020 United States census, the population stood at 2,736,074, making it the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City, the most populous county in the state. Brooklyn, at 37,339.9 inhabitants per square mile (14,417.0/km2), is the second most densely populated county in the U.S. after Manhattan, as of 2022. Had Brooklyn remained an independent city, it would today be the fourth most populous American city after the rest of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 1810 and 2002, Brooklyn was the birth place of 474 globally memorable people, including Abraham Maslow, Milton Friedman, and Jeffrey Epstein. Additionaly, 43 globally memorable people have passed away in Brooklyn including Karl Ferdinand Braun, Lola Montez, and Jonas Mekas.
People Born in Brooklyn
Go to all RankingsAbraham Maslow
PSYCHOLOGIST
1908 - 1970
HPI: 76.98
Rank: 1
Milton Friedman
ECONOMIST
1912 - 2006
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 2
Jeffrey Epstein
BUSINESSPERSON
1953 - 2019
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 3
Michael Jordan
BASKETBALL PLAYER
1963 - Present
HPI: 70.75
Rank: 4
Barbra Streisand
SINGER
1942 - Present
HPI: 70.48
Rank: 5
Eli Wallach
ACTOR
1915 - 2014
HPI: 69.80
Rank: 6
Joe Dassin
SINGER
1938 - 1980
HPI: 69.79
Rank: 7
Mike Tyson
BOXER
1966 - Present
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 8
The Notorious B.I.G.
SINGER
1972 - 1997
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 9
Irving Langmuir
CHEMIST
1881 - 1957
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 10
Stanley Cohen
PHYSICIAN
1922 - 2020
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 11
Robert Solow
ECONOMIST
1924 - 2023
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Brooklyn
Go to all RankingsSammy Gravano
MAFIOSO
1945 - Present
HPI: 52.23
Rank: 116
Lenny Montana
ACTOR
1926 - 1992
HPI: 51.67
Rank: 126
Robert W. Chambers
WRITER
1865 - 1933
HPI: 51.36
Rank: 132
Sanford Meisner
ACTOR
1905 - 1997
HPI: 51.15
Rank: 134
Ronald DeFeo Jr.
EXTREMIST
1951 - 2021
HPI: 50.02
Rank: 149
Ajita Wilson
ACTOR
1950 - 1987
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 151
Joel-Peter Witkin
PHOTOGRAPHER
1939 - Present
HPI: 49.94
Rank: 154
Martha Rosler
ARTIST
1943 - Present
HPI: 47.60
Rank: 200
J. E. Freeman
ACTOR
1946 - 2014
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 207
Joy Mangano
INVENTOR
1956 - Present
HPI: 46.98
Rank: 221
Evelyn Lear
SINGER
1926 - 2012
HPI: 46.68
Rank: 227
Morris Kline
MATHEMATICIAN
1908 - 1992
HPI: 46.65
Rank: 229
People Deceased in Brooklyn
Go to all RankingsKarl Ferdinand Braun
INVENTOR
1850 - 1918
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 1
Lola Montez
ACTOR
1821 - 1861
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 2
Jonas Mekas
WRITER
1922 - 2019
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 3
Winsor McCay
COMIC ARTIST
1867 - 1934
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 4
Elias Howe
INVENTOR
1819 - 1867
HPI: 57.93
Rank: 5
Charles Dow
JOURNALIST
1851 - 1902
HPI: 56.91
Rank: 6
Frederick William Franz
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1893 - 1992
HPI: 54.44
Rank: 7
Milton George Henschel
POLITICIAN
1920 - 2003
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 8
Susannah Mushatt Jones
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1899 - 2016
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 9
Alexander Lodygin
ENGINEER
1847 - 1923
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 10
Cecil Taylor
MUSICIAN
1929 - 2018
HPI: 50.56
Rank: 11
James B. Donovan
LAWYER
1916 - 1970
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Deceased in Brooklyn
Go to all RankingsMorris Kline
MATHEMATICIAN
1908 - 1992
HPI: 46.65
Rank: 17
Charles Bradley
SINGER
1948 - 2017
HPI: 45.07
Rank: 23
Zaida Ben-Yusuf
PHOTOGRAPHER
1869 - 1933
HPI: 44.58
Rank: 24
Charles Ericksen
WRESTLER
1875 - 1916
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 35
Henry Warner Slocum
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1827 - 1894
HPI: 40.02
Rank: 38
Ned Vizzini
WRITER
1981 - 2013
HPI: 22.60
Rank: 42
Ben Fletcher
SOCIAL ACTIVIST
1890 - 1949
HPI: 0.00
Rank: 43
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Brooklyn were actors (178), singers (40), musicians (24), basketball players (22), and writers (20), while most who died were actors (5), musicians (5), writers (4), social activists (4), and singers (4).
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Brooklyn, including Martin Landau, Steve Buscemi, and Richard Dreyfuss. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Brooklyn, including Eli Wallach, Martin Landau, and Steve Buscemi.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Brooklyn since 1700.